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The World Cup is the globe’s biggest sporting event, with the 2014 iteration of the tournament being seen by over 3 billion people, including more than 1 billion watching the final. With that many eyeballs on the event, there’s a huge opportunity for numerous brands to score big and raise their profile on a truly global scale.

The 2018 World Cup kicks off in June in Russia, with 32 countries from around the world meeting on the pitch for a shot at global football supremacy. Unfortunately for brands hoping to reach the lucrative American audience, the United States is not one of those countries. The United States failed to qualify for the main event for the first time in over three decades, suffering an embarrassing 2-1 defeat to Trinidad and Tobago during the final day of qualifying, which eliminated them from the tournament.

One of the biggest losers to come out of that was Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (NASDAQ:FOX), which outbid WaltDisney Co (NYSE:DIS) for the broadcast rights to all FIFA World Cup tournaments from 2015 through 2022. It’s estimated that Fox will lose as much as $20 million in advertising revenue due to the absence of the United States team from the 2018 event, which may have been given special significance among U.S viewers because of where it’s taking place.

On the other hand, numerous companies are still poised to drive revenue and earnings growth thanks to the massive event, with the goal of building on that momentum after it’s over. While the U.S market won’t be as rapt, other wealthy nations, particularly in Europe, will be engulfed in World Cup fever.

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Adidas will be sponsoring 11 of the 32 teams in the main event, including Spain, Germany, and Argentina, three of the top five favorites to take home the trophy, as well as the host Russians. Adidas expects a huge jump in jersey sales this year because of that, and the company also functions as the official sponsor of the World Cup itself, which includes branded balls and equipment.

While Adidas AG (ADR) (OTCMKTS:ADDYY) CEO Kaspar Rorsted recently told CNBC that this year’s World Cup will be commercially less strong (than 2014’s) due to geopolitical tensions involving host nation Russia, among other things, he stated that the Adidas brand will nonetheless benefit from the huge amount of exposure it will get during the world’s biggest event. Shares of Adidas have fallen by nearly 10% in the past two weeks, offering a nice entry point ahead of the World Cup.